Titusville police cleared 11 homeless sites in June 2011

10:37 PM,
Mar. 8, 2013

Officers Jonathan Escobar, left, and Paul Heineman look over a camp in 2011.

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Scott Gunnerson
| FLORIDA TODAY

The city trampled on the constitutional rights of five homeless men, including three military veterans, when their camps were raided and belongings destroyed in 2011, according to a lawsuit filed this week.

Titusville police cleared 11 homeless camps in June 2011 as part of an action plan to remove individuals and demolish homeless camps, which officials at the time said were safety hazards.

Fire department officials said immediately after the raids that they had traced at least two wildfires in wooded areas of the city to homeless camps. ...